How can I get an item with the same name as the nearest player?

Solution 1:

I spent I few hours researching this one! An answer by JooshNF:

This is not possible unless you know all the players who will press it. If so, you would need a setup like this;

http://i.imgur.com/0aYTzT9.png

Command 1: /execute @e[type=WitherSkull] ~ ~ ~ /testfor @p[name=(player's name),r=5]

Command 2: /setblock x y z command_block 0 replace {Command:"/give @p (item) 1 0 {display:{Name"(player's name)"}}}

To summon witherskull: /summon WitherSkull ~ ~ ~ {direction:[0.0,0.0,0.0]} So, this is basically impossible.

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